A pumped-up Ken Lund, head of the state’s economic development office, said Tuesday after the news conference introducing Arrow Electronics as Colorado’s newest Fortune 500 company that he expects more announcements in coming weeks.

Does that mean the state is going to bag PrimeStar Solar and the 400 jobs that come with its solar-panel manufacturing plant?

Lund wasn’t saying.

But it’s clear that we’re in a battle with New York for the plant, and according to a reliable source, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is fighting like the sun-god Apollo slinging economic incentives at PrimeStar to lock down the plant for the Empire State.

If the Hickenlooper administration can win PrimeStar it would be a decisive one-two counterpunch to the ignominy of recent corporate defections by Qwest, Coors, First Data and Frontier. Indeed, it would be a stellar start for Lund, who’s only been in the job since August, and evidence that Gov. John Hickenlooper may be “the best deal closer I’ve ever seen” in the words of Tom Clark, executive vice president of Metro Denver Economic Development Corp.

Arrow Electronics, a supplier of electronic components, plans to add 1,250 jobs over the next five years at its office in Arapahoe County, a stone’s throw from Centennial Airport.

Newsday, the paper that serves the city of Melville, N.Y., where Arrow has its headquarters, called the company’s impending headquarters move to the Denver area a “psychological blow to Long Island.” Here’s a sample of the online comments below the paper’s online story:

— “Anyone who believes Arrow’s long range plan is not to eliminate it’s Long Island operation is a fool. First they will go to Colorado and set up operation by hiring 1,250 residents of Colorado at a much lower salary structure. Once up and running in Colorado, Nassau will become history. Read between the lines. In 5 years Arrow will be gone from Long Island.”

— “Colorado is a great state for business and the cost of living is much cheaper. Companies have an easier time getting college educated people who don’t need to make $100,000 a year to live in their parents basement. The trend has just started. Taxes are much less, I guess train conductors don’t make $250,000 a year in Colorado.”

— “Colorado is nice. The mountains are majestic and the air is clean. They are very smart to make the move. The fine imported electronic parts will like it there very much.”

Ooh. Online comments no less. I’m impressed. Get back to me if this solar business has something behind it, like a market demand, capitalization, (not counting Uncle Sam) and something beyond Hope and Change.

Emilie Rusch covers retail and commercial real estate for The Post. A Wisconsin native and Mizzou graduate, she moved to Colorado in 2012. Before that, she worked at a small daily newspaper in South Dakota. It's the one with Mount Rushmore.